3rd October 2014, 10:46 PM
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Happy Hell Night (1991)
A slasher based around a fraternity dare which forces members of Pi Delta Sigma to go to the local asylum and take a photo in the cell of a notorious madman who slaughtered some college kids 25 years previously.
It's a shame but Happy Hell Night, despite it's very gory kills, is a film which completely fails in the suspense building dept. The killer, who looks a little like Mr Barlow from Salem's Lot is a decent creation until he opens his mouth after every one of his ice pick murders and wisecracks in a helium infused voice "No shagging" and other lines like this, dragging the terror factor down to a sub Krueger level.
Certainly watchable, with plenty of grue and gratuitous nudity, and a fairly well known cast - Darren McGavin, Sam Rockwell and Jorja Fox, Happy Hell Night is a film of what might have been rather than a classic in it's own right.
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